ELA Terms

Occurs when the audience knows a secret that the characters don't

• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

Is the emotional effect that a poem or story has on the reader

• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

Exaggerated statements or claim not meant to be taken literally, purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor

• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

The attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

A comparison of two different things without using like or as

• Dramatic Irony
• Mood
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

The comparison of two things using like or as

• Simile
• Idiom
• Symbolism
• Repetition
• Rhyme

A word or phrase that has special meaning different from it's standard or dictionary meaning

• Simile
• Idiom
• Symbolism
• Repetition
• Rhyme

The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character

• Simile
• Idiom
• Symbolism
• Repetition
• Rhyme

The act of repeating, or doing, or saying or writing something again

• Simile
• Idiom
• Symbolism
• Repetition
• Rhyme

Repetition of ending sounds of words

• Simile
• Idiom
• Symbolism
• Repetition
• Rhyme